Arm Reliquary, ca. 1230, Made in Meuse Valley, South Netherlands, South Netherlandish, Silver, gilded silver, niello, and gems; wood core , 25 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 4 in. (64.8 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm), Metalwork-Silver, This container for the precious remains of a saint adopts the form of the relics it likely once held—fragments of a saint’s arm. When the reliquary was set on an altar, the sacred bones could be perceived in the two windows, once covered with crystal, which are cut into the silver
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Arm Reliquary, ca, 1230, Meuse Valley, South Netherlands, Netherlandish, Silver, gilded silver, niello, gems, wood core, 25 1/2 x 6 4, 64.8 16.5 10.2 cm, Metalwork-Silver, container, precious remains, saint adopts, form, relics, held—fragments, saint, arm, reliquary, set, altar, sacred bones, perceived, two windows, covered, crystal, cut, silver
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